r/Metaphysics↗
Metaphysics: explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world
This sub-reddit is for the discussion of metaphysics, the scholarly and academic field concerned with attempting to answer the most fundamental questions. Metaphysics is one of the primary branches of philosophy. Some of the questions that arise in metaphysics are about the fundamental nature of things like time, matter, subjective experience, value, free will, concepts, etcetera.
69k subscribers197 posts / mo in Sep 2026142 authors / mosince 2008
r/Metaphysics has 69k members (+74% over the last 12 months). It gets about 197 posts a month from 142 people. Top topics: Consciousness and Existence, Capitalism Debates and Philosophy Discussions.
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- Consciousness and Existence2.6%
- Capitalism Debates1.9%
- Philosophy Discussions1.0%
- Big Bang Theory0.5%
- Marcus Aurelius Meditations0.4%
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- Stanford University
- Substack
- Zenodo
- Doi
- Medium
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